The Point Casino: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

390.0 miles from Sacramento is one documented straight-line measurement for the venue commonly searched as the point casino, and the same straight-line matrix also places it 11.1 miles from Las Vegas, 220.5 miles from Los Angeles, and 611.8 miles from Denver. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

For this query, the fixed place that can be described from publicly published reference sources is South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Enterprise, Nevada. The venue is documented at coordinates 36.011426, -115.1753, and venue figures published for a point in time include 2,400 slot machines, 60 table games, and 2,163 hotel rooms; property figures can change as venues are rebuilt, reconfigured, sold, or rebranded.

Where the venue is fixed on the map

The venue is in Enterprise, Nevada. Its documented coordinates are 36.011426 latitude and -115.1753 longitude.

Those coordinates place it in the western United States, in Nevada. Relative to the reference points listed below, it sits west of places such as Dallas, Denver, Chicago, and New York City, and east of Pacific-coast points such as Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle.

The same coordinate set also supports a simple north-south reading. The venue is north of Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Tampa, while it is south of Sacramento, Reno, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Toronto, Boston, and Buffalo.

Documented venue facts tied to this location

Publicly published reference sources identify the property as South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, opened on December 22, 2005. The owner is documented as Michael Gaughan.

Published facility figures for the opening-era property include an 80,000 sq ft casino, 2,400 slot machines, 60 table games, and a hotel with 2,163 rooms. The same source material also states that a facility used for United States Bowling Congress events is on the second floor of the Priefert Pavilion and is separate from the resort's original bowling alley.

All injected straight-line pairs

The table below reproduces the full set of documented venue-to-reference-point pairs supplied for this article. Every mileage shown is a great-circle measurement, not a road route.

Why straight-line distance and real travel do not match

A great-circle number is the shortest path across the earth's surface between two coordinate points. It is useful for orientation because it tells you whether a reference place is broadly closer or farther in geometric terms, but it is not a route you can physically follow on roads.

Road mileage becomes longer for several reasons. Terrain can force detours, water can block direct movement, street patterns and regional road networks rarely run in a perfect line, and crossing from one state into another may funnel traffic toward a limited set of usable connections.

That is why a venue can be 11.1 straight-line miles from Las Vegas yet still require a longer road path, and why very long cross-country pairs such as 2233.3 straight-line miles to NYC or 2375.8 straight-line miles to Boston should be read only as map geometry. This article intentionally stops at the documented great-circle figures.

How to use these distances correctly

If your question is simply where the property sits relative to other places, the matrix is enough. It shows, for example, that this venue is much nearer in straight-line terms to Silverton at 2.2 miles, Monte Carlo at 6.4 miles, Caesars at 7.3 miles, Harrah at 7.5 miles, Henderson at 10.8 miles, and Las Vegas at 11.1 miles than it is to out-of-state reference points such as Phoenix at 249.7 miles, Denver at 611.8 miles, Dallas at 1069.0 miles, or Toronto at 1954.5 miles.

If your starting point is not one of the injected reference names, this article cannot measure that specific pair. In that case, use the fixed venue coordinates, 36.011426 and -115.1753, in any mapping tool and compare them with your own chosen origin; that lets you reproduce the same kind of point-to-point geographic measurement without guessing.

What to confirm before you go

The venue's position is fixed far more often than its day-to-day operating details. Before travelling, check the property's own contact or visitor-information pages for current hours, on-site access arrangements, hotel availability, and any event-specific restrictions that could affect where you enter or which facilities are in use.

It is also worth confirming whether the facility figures you care about are current. Publicly published reference sources document this property as opened on December 22, 2005, with 2,400 slot machines, 60 table games, and 2,163 hotel rooms, but counts and layouts can change over time.

FAQ

Is the point casino in Las Vegas?

The documented venue for this query is in Enterprise, Nevada, not listed here as being in Las Vegas itself. Publicly published reference sources place it 11.1 miles from Las Vegas in straight-line terms, which is useful for map orientation only. Road mileage is longer, and this article does not publish a driving figure.

Can this article tell me how far it is from my location?

Only if your origin appears in the documented distance matrix, and this query does not supply a personal starting point. The venue's position is fixed at 36.011426, -115.1753, while your position is not. To measure from where you are, enter those coordinates into a mapping tool and compare them with your own origin point.

Does the distance table show the nearest route?

No. Every number in the table is labeled great-circle, meaning a straight-line measurement between coordinates. That makes the table useful for geographic comparison, but not for route planning. Terrain, water, local street patterns, and state-to-state network choices all make real road travel longer than the straight-line figure.

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